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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#655: War of the Spark Cards, Part 5

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This is part five of a five-part series on card-by-card design stories from War of the Spark.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.9

And I will continue talking about War of the Spark.

0:11.8

Okay, so when last we left, we were up to O, which gets us to Oath of Kaya, which is a legendary enchantment.

0:19.7

So when Oth of Kaya enters the battlefield, it deals three damage to any target and you gain

0:24.3

three life.

0:25.7

When an opponent attacks the Plainswalker, you control with one or more creatures.

0:29.7

Oath of Kaya deals two damage to that player and you gain two life.

0:33.8

So the oaths are what we do.

0:36.0

Whenever a character, a Plainswalker,

0:39.4

joins the Oath of the Gatewatch, they get a card.

0:42.5

So, Kaya is the one that joins the Gatewatch this time.

0:45.9

And so she gets an oath.

0:47.1

So the way the oaths work,

0:49.2

when we first made them back in Oath of the Gatewatch,

0:52.5

is you have two abilities. The first is an enter the battlefield

0:56.0

effect. And the idea is... Oh, sorry, did I say what Othakaya cost? Othacaquaya... I think I said that,

1:04.1

actually. Hold on a second. Um... So I think Osookkaia cost... Oh, one white black.

1:11.4

It costs one white black. It costs one white black.

1:12.6

So it costs three mana.

1:13.8

The idea is the enter the battlefield effect usually is a decent, like, so this drains a target

1:19.6

for three.

1:20.6

Okay, one way beat.

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